ELRIG have announced that registration is now open for its Advances in Recombinant Protein Technologies which this year will focus on redesigned synthetic systems. The 2 day symposium will be held at the Astra Zeneca’s Alderley Park Site in Macclesfield on 19th and 20th November.

Sudden cardiac death is a risk for patients with heart failure because the calcium inside their heart cells is not properly controlled and this can lead to an irregular heartbeat. New findings reveal mechanisms that underlie this life-threatening risk, provide new possibilities for fighting it.

A cluster of carbon nanotubes coated with a thin layer of protein-recognising polymer form a biosensor capable of using electrochemical signals to detect minute amounts of proteins, which could provide a crucial new diagnostic tool for the detection of a range of illnesses.